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I had other plans for today but then I received an email from the UK magazine The Idler. This isn’t a new phenomenon, or unwanted by any means. I’ve been happily getting their newsletter to keep up with all of their goings on for a few years now. And while Idler doesn’t always have pertinent…

It gets tiring to always argue against people’s preconceptions or ideas about work. Lots of people in the world (not necessarily incorrectly) see work as “effort”. That makes sense given that this is how people often use it. But this is complicated by the fact that people also say things like, “I’m going to…

Nick’s Notes: This is another one of those questions I got from fans of the site. You can see the last question I addressed in this post, where I talked about the prospects about technology and alienation in a post-work society. There’s some questions that are rudimentary but vitally important and I never think to…

Preface I’ve been hearing about Scott Santens for a while. I think I’d even read one or two of his articles before I started digging into his handy FAQ. A month ago or so I read over a few posts by his, mostly on the subjects that personally interested me and the questions I have…

Getting back on my Abolish Work to-do list I read Freedom From Jobs by Elliot Sperber and was intrigued by much of it. I’ll start with those parts I find intriguing and convincing before I move into the parts I thought were questionable. Early on in the article Sperber makes this remark which I…

One of Office Space’s biggest strengths as a movie is that it doesn’t hold back on showing how much corporate bureaucrats love paperwork. Whether it’s the memo for the TPS reports, the TPS reports themselves or the infinite usages of the copy machine, the workplace has been saturated with dead trees for a long time…

After thumbing up this video, which for some reason, is unlisted, it said to “…Be considerate and think twice before sharing.” But given that I got this from someone on Reddit I don’t think it’s gonna do much harm.

Nick’s Notes: In the UK they call the subway, “tubes” so I’m just going for some authentically British language. As RT.com reports: London commuters were welcomed back to work Monday morning by a series of depressing posters proclaiming that much of the nation’s workforce see their jobs as pointless. The “subversion strike” targeted commuters on…

(Nick’s Notes: Re-posted from here. You can follow antiwork on their Twitter account or at their “related and more established Twitter account @NewsFrames“.) Over a decade into the 21st century, we seem as work-obsessed as ever. Is it time for a progressive reframing of work and leisure? Antiwork is a moral alternative to the obsession with…